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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1939)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, December 21, 1939 Christmas A Christmas Trees Are Saov.’ctcrm — o---- Cash Crop The Cave Junction Community Church will give a Christmas Pro gram Sunday morning. Dec. 24. at 11:00 o’clock. Besides the exer cises of the little people of the Sun day School there will be play, "Al Peace." It has a lovely devotion al theme depicting a way in which Silent Night might have come to be written. Also Mrs. Meola will sing a solo. Everyone in invited to come. By Sarah Jane Clark TpHREE hours the snow- * bound train reached Chicago. Mary Lou gathered her baggage to gether and took the bus across to the other station, to find her con necting train had left on schedule. The folks would drive in to town to meet the train unless she could head them off Her message put through. Mary Lou sank down on one of the benches to collect her thoughts and make her plans until train time. Five o’clock, and no train until 9:30 the next morning “Going out soon?” a cheery voice near her asked. She looked up to find the chief usher standing beside her. A middle-aged, friendly look ing fellow Mary Lou told him of her missed connections. "Here, Eddie, look at this!" a red cap interrupted her story. He was leading a three-year-old child, a dear little girl with big blue eyes and yellow curls. "What are you doing with the kid? Is she lost?” Eddie asked sharply, turning away from Mary Lou. "Might as well be. She came In from Denver, in charge of the stew ardess They missed the train north, and the stewardess is celebrating Christmas by having her appendix out, emergency case. They told me to turn the kid over to you.” the boy grinned as he handed her over to the chief usher. Eddie took her clumsily. "See here, what can a bachelor like me do with a kid like this?" He looked appealingly at Mary Lou. Mary Lou’s eyes filled with tears Then she held out her arms toward the youngster. "What is your name dear?” she asked. “Annette Pollard. 1 am three years old and 1 am going from Chey enne to Rio. Wisconsin, to my grand ma Pollard. My daddy is there.” It was a lesson she had been taught. Mary Lou held her close. "I had a little girl almost as old as Annette when she died.” she said brokenly to Eddie. “Let me keep the child I Christmas Program To Be Given by Church him. She finally consents, and they are happy even though Bing writes songs which won’t sell and loses job after job. Watching a group of newsboys sing and dunce while on his way to get another job, Bing decides to organize them into the greatest kid act ever to hit the stage. The act gets a tryout, is successful. Bing hires Ned Sparks as press agent, launches kid acts all over the country. Then Laura Hope Crews, brings Linda Ware to him. Bing is enthused about her great tal ent, decides to make her a star, and piesents her in an all-kiddie musicai revue on Broadway The show also consists of the “Musical Mountaineers” and the 5th chapter of “The Lone Ranger." Cutting Christmas trees for ex- port is a substantial forest indus try in the Douglas fir belt, accord ing to a statement from U. S. reg ional forester Lyle F. Watts, Port land, Oregon. Several million trees are shipped south and east annual ly from Washington and Oregon. ------ Merry Christmas “It is a legitimate industry,” says Watts. “It helps payrolls and brings some revenue to the owners of the cut-over forest land. Un ------ Merry Christmas------ fortunately, a good many abuses are connected with this industry FORMER RESIDENTS HERE and these should be corrected.” Mrs. Floyd White, her daughter, Watts suggested that unneces Marie and sister, Mrs. Eldon John I sary waste, the creation of addi son, just returned to Long Beach tional fire hazards, and disregard and Los Angeles, after a visit with of silvicultural considerations in Local lovers of the grand kind their parents and other relatives in cutting young trees can be halted , of entertainment dispensed by Oregon. They spent their first by public suport in stopping van Bing Crosby on screen and radio,, week end with their sisters and dalism and by the requirement on can look forward to seeing Bing brothers in Klamath Falls, taking the part of forest land owners that in a picture which really measures, their parents with them. The fol authorized cutting of Christmas up to his talents when Paramount lowing week another sister, Mrs. trees be done in accordance with presents "The Star Maker" at the . Clyde Phelps returned to Cave stipulated forestry practices. Cave City theater Wednesday and Junction with them, spending the To the purchasers of Christmas Thursday, December 27 and 28. week end here. About 30 of their trees who wish to get their money’s The new Crosby vehicle, which relatives were together on one day worth, it is suggested that setting might readily be termed a singing at Klamath Falls. On their last the tree in a tub of water or moist cavalcade of show business, gives day which was the Lord's day, that sand will help keep the needles Bing the best role he has ever had. I these three were in Cave Junction, from falling. It casts him as a tin pan alley song they, with their parents, Mr. and Another method is to set the writer, a small time hoofer who Mrs. Sherrier, attended the Cave tree in a wide-mouthed container believes that he can rise to the top Junction Community church in the that holds about one gallon. Mix in show business by taking talent morning and the Bridgeview five grams of citric acid and six ed kids from the sidewalks of New church in the evening. Mr. and grams of malic acid or pectin with York, and building them into great Mrs. Byrum Gray and Joanna re three quarts of water. Later, add acts. turned to Los Angeles with them 15 grams of calcium carbonate to "The Star Maker" presents the in order that they may attend the the acid solution. As the tree best cast ever to appear with him. Bible Institute of Los Angeles as uses up the solution, add more wa It includes Louise Campbell as his soon as God makes it possible. ter. These chemicals are not ex practical-minded wife, Linda Ware John 3:36. pensive and will give good results 14-year-old singer discovered by Signed Mrs. Eldon Johnson. for pratically all kinds of Christ Charles R. Rogers, as a youngster mas trees except hemlock. Bing builds into a star, Ned Sparks, as Bing's press agent. ------ Merry Christmas------ Laura Hope Crews, as an ex-opera singer, and Janet Waldo, as Bing's WPA Writers’ secretary. Walter Damrosch “grand old man" of American mu Project Tells sic, will also be seen in the picture, conducting the Philharmonic Or Of Oregon Caves chestra of Los Angeles. In addi tion, the largest group of singing and adneing youngsters ever as From the time of Oregon’s first sembled for a motion picture, ap federal census in 1850 to the ap pear with Bing in the production proach of the 1940 census the numbers. state has made an estimated gain The story of the picture, sug of 1,003,000 in population, accord gested by the career of that grand WRIGHT’S ing to the Oregon Writers’ Project showman, Gus Edwards, starts of the WPA. The first federal with Bing trying to persuade Lou WORTHMORE enumeration in Oregon listed 13,- ise Campbell, a girl who assists the Newell Wright 294 residents and the 1940 state matron of an orphanage, to marry population is unofficially estimat ed at 1,017,000. The greatest gain during any 10-year period was between 1900 and 1910, when ♦- dki ^ iih the population jumped from 413,- 536 to 672,765, an advance of 259,229. For the corresponding period Portland's population increased 116,788 to 207,214. Portland’s first federal count was 821, and the 1940 unofficial estimate is 361,000, making a rise of more than 360,000. Following are the nine federal census reports for Oregon: 1850, 13,294; 1860, 52,465; 1870, 90, C. H. DEM ARA Y 923; 1880, 174,768; 1890, 313,- Stationary and Office Supplies 767; 1900, 413,536; 1910, 672,- 765; 1920, 783,389 and 1930, Grants Pass 953,786. "Star Maker” Saga of Show Industry CITY Saturday and Sunday, December 23-24— News and a good Cartoon Wednesday and Thursday. December 27-28— Your Christmas Show The world's most talented kias the screen's most heart-stir ring romance...and Bing's most human role! I MAKER 7 Mary Lou heard the voice of An nette's father. tonight, and take her to her home. I missed the same train she did.” Eddie studied her face. What he saw satisfied him Still he hesitated for a moment. "That sounds good to me. But I’d better get the con ductor to authorize it.” IT WAS soon decided that Mary Lou should keep her. But she must not leave the station. "It won’t be very comfortable for you, ma’am, but the kid can curl up on a bench here and be dead to the world in no time. There are some rocking chairs in the far room there. Why. of course there are some cots there, and baby beds." “We ought to telephone the child's relatives,” Mary Lou suggested. "Of course we should. Here is the address and telephone number. You do it for me. will you, please, ma’am? I've got my last minute shopping to do. I'm mighty glad you came in on this train. Eddie'll take the kid while you telephone to Rio." and the conductor was off. after turning over the child's money to Mary Lou. But not until Mary Lou had made him promise to send a big doll back for the child's Christmas. "We'll let Annette say hello to her daddy herself, if she wants to,” Mary Lou exclaimed. And so it was done. Mary Lou heard the voice of Annette's father, tense with concern, and then joyful as he realized where his baby was and heard her childish treble over the phone. "Her moth er's parents sent her back here to have Christmas with me. Her moth er died two years ago,” he added. The sun was shining dazzlingly bright the next morning when the train stopped at Rio. The red-haired man who was waiting expectantly on the platform had only time to thank Mary Lou, and get her ad- dress, before the train pulled out leaving him holding Annette as she waved a good-by to Mary Lou. But the trip home was much eas ier. Mary Lou forgot the burning pain at the loss of her own little daughter, the aching loneliness since her own husband's death, as she remembered the soft kiss of the baby lips of the motherless child who had been in her charge the night before. And the look In the face of Annette's daddy made her sure she would see Annette soon. 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